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SUBMITTER: Mascaraque M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429057 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mascaraque Marta M Delgado-Wicke Pablo P Damian Alejandra A Lucena Silvia Rocío SR Lucena Silvia Rocío SR Carrasco Elisa E Juarranz Ángeles Á
International journal of molecular sciences 20190311 5
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) constitutes a cancer treatment modality based on the administration of a photosensitizer, which accumulates in tumor cells. The subsequent irradiation of the tumoral area triggers the formation of reactive oxygen species responsible for cancer cell death. One of the compounds approved in clinical practice is methyl-aminolevulinate (MAL), a protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) precursor intermediate of heme synthesis. We have identified the mitotic catastrophe (MC) process after MA ...[more]